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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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